A Curmudgeon's Curiousity Cabinet
( Your curiousity may vary )

Some of the links here have to do with my own interests and curiosity. Others are to provide friends with easy links to stuff that I know to be of interest to them. They may not yet have found some of the links.
The whimsy evident in the rest of this site is given fairly full sway here.

Nothing here is meant to offend anyone. I feel that the humor page is supposed to take care of that. Since several of the linked resources on the humor page profess the ability to offend any member of a lengthy list of groups so comprehensive as to include anything sentient and several groups whose sentience is under debate in some quarters, I consider the giving of offence to be best left to hands more skilled than mine. (Besides, those guys might be able to afford a lawyer.) To the best of my knowledge, none of the links here lead one to anything gross. You may not be interested, you might be bored, but I would be mightily surprized if anyone was offended.

You can learn how everything works at HowStuffWorks.com -
OK, only mostly everything, not including among other "things" but not limited to, cats.

A view of how things work with a different focus
can be found at Scientific American

Over the ages mankind has become very skilled in the waging of war.
The folks at The Carter Center are dedicated to waging peace.

Yes,the CIA World Factbook 2000 is a public document. Whether it is either accurate on its face, or an accurate report of what the CIA really knows, are two distinctly different questions. Whether visiting this site deposits "cookies" baked with razor blades on your hard drive is one other possible question.
This is part of what "vee hafv vays" of knowing . .

Peer-to-peer networking works very well. Napster was the first application to make this painfully apparent to the business world.

The project undertaken by the Machine Intelligence Group that piqued my interest is a system to scan artwork and output embroidery.

When I want to find somthing out about a domain name, the first place I go is Network Solutions Inc. - WHOIS Lookup

A good place to find out what is (and is not) flying in the USA is the
Air Traffic Control System Command Center

To see what excellent talent and extensive resources will do for animation, you might want to visit the Pixar studio website.

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